(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5240) Interesting article

[Damian Rouson]

On May 8, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Van Snyder <Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 10:35 +0100, John Reid wrote:
> 
> If Julia really wants to get past half as fast as Fortran, maybe the
> target ought to be Fortran instead of LLVM.

These aren?t mutually exclusive.  There are Fortran front ends that use LLVM as the back end, e.g., DragonEgg: http://dragonegg.llvm.org.

Damian